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Ecology of Highlands

Author : M.S. Mani
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400991746
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Ecology of Highlands written by M.S. Mani and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High altitude research is comparatively a recent development. With the notable exceptions of entomology, botany and perhaps some aspects of human acclimatization, our knowledge of high altitude environment is extremely scanty. There is at present no comprehensive handbook on the general ecology of highlands. This book aims at providing such a text for the use of the general scientist, engineer, biologist and university students. It summarizes and critically reviews current developments and focusses atten tion on urgent problems of highland ecology needing future studies. This book has grown out of our explorations and experiences in the highlands of Asia and South America. The results of explorations of the high altitude plants and insects on the Himalaya, Alai-Pamirs, Central Tien Shan and Caucasus by one of us (MSM), discussed in earlier publications, are reviewed here in the light of recent advances. Many years' experience of teaching and research in the University of Sucre (3400 m) and studies at Potosi (4000 m), La Paz and Chacaltaya (5000 m) in Bolivia by the second author (LEG) cover problems in physical chemistry, meteorology, engineer ing and other physical aspects of highland environments.

Ecology of Highlands

Author : Mahadeva S. Mani
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789061938811
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (388 download)

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Download or read book Ecology of Highlands written by Mahadeva S. Mani and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Flora and Vegetation of Highlands

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (638 download)

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Download or read book Flora and Vegetation of Highlands written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Highlands

Author : Richard G. Lathrop
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813552087
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book The Highlands written by Richard G. Lathrop and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2011-12-12 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Think of the Highlands as the “backyard” and “backstop” of the Philadelphia–New York–Hartford metroplex. A backyard that spans over three million acres across Pennsylvania, New York, and Connecticut, the Highlands serves as recreational open space for the metroplex’s burgeoning human population. As backstop, Highlands’ watersheds provide a ready source of high-quality drinking water for over fifteen million people. The Highlands is the first book to examine the natural and cultural landscape of this four-state region, showing how it’s distinctive and why its conservation is vital. Each chapter is written by a different leading researcher and specialist in that field, and introduces readers to another aspect of the Highlands: its geological foundations, its aquifers and watersheds, its forest ecology, its past iron industry. In the 1800s, the Highlands were mined, cutover, and then largely abandoned. Given time, the forests regenerated, the land healed, and the waters cleared. Increasingly, however, the Highlands are under assault again—polluted runoff contaminating lakes and streams, invasive species choking out the local flora and fauna, exurban sprawl blighting the rural landscape, and climate change threatening the integrity of its ecosystems. The Highlands makes a compelling case for land use planning and resource management strategies that could help ensure a sustainable future for the region, strategies that could in turn be applied to other landscapes threatened by urbanization across the country. The Highlands are a valuable resource. And now, so is The Highlands.

Agro-Ecological Intensification of Agricultural Systems in the African Highlands

Author : Bernard Vanlauwe
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136292276
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (362 download)

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Book Synopsis Agro-Ecological Intensification of Agricultural Systems in the African Highlands by : Bernard Vanlauwe

Download or read book Agro-Ecological Intensification of Agricultural Systems in the African Highlands written by Bernard Vanlauwe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-17 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is an urgent need to increase agricultural productivity in sub-Saharan Africa in a sustainable and economically-viable manner. Transforming risk-averse smallholders into business-oriented producers that invest in producing surplus food for sale provides a formidable challenge, both from a technological and socio-political perspective. This book addresses the issue of agricultural intensification in the humid highland areas of Africa – regions with relatively good agricultural potential, but where the scarce land resources are increasingly under pressure from the growing population and from climate change. In addition to introductory and synthesis chapters, the book focuses on four themes: system components required for agricultural intensification; the integration of components at the system level; drivers for adoption of technologies towards intensification; and the dissemination of complex knowledge. It provides case studies of improved crop and soil management for staple crops such as cassava and bananas, as well as examples of how the livelihoods of rural people can be improved. The book provides a valuable resource for researchers, development actors, students and policy makers in agricultural systems and economics and in international development. It highlights and addresses key challenges and opportunities that exist for sustainable agricultural intensification in the humid highlands of sub-Saharan Africa.

Nature and Nation

Author : Mark Toogood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book Nature and Nation written by Mark Toogood and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ecology and Natural Resource Development in the Western Highlands of Cameroon. Issues in Natural Resource Management

Author : Cornelius Mbifung Lambi
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 995661548X
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (566 download)

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Download or read book Ecology and Natural Resource Development in the Western Highlands of Cameroon. Issues in Natural Resource Management written by Cornelius Mbifung Lambi and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2010 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The densely populated Bamenda Highlands of Cameroon remains one of the regions with the greatest land degradation problems in the country. Factors responsible for this include climate change, the hilly nature or topographic layout of the land, and human interference through overgrazing, destructive agricultural practices and the impact of deforestation. This detailed study of resource management and its ecological challenges in the Bamenda Highlands, stresses an important link between falling food output and soil deterioration. While most areas in this predominantly agricultural region enjoy food abundance, the inhabitants of high-density infertile, rugged mountainous areas are forced to resort to double cropping and intensified land exploitation that leave little room for soil regeneration. The population problem in relation to land degradation is infinitely more complicated than the region's sheer ability to produce enough food supply. The authors make a strong case for a delicate balance between human agency and environmental protection in this highly populated and physically challenging region where land is a precious resource and land conflicts are common.

Enlightenment's Frontier

Author : Fredrik Albritton Jonsson
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300163746
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Enlightenment's Frontier written by Fredrik Albritton Jonsson and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-18 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVEnlightenment’s Frontier is the first book to investigate the environmental roots of the Scottish Enlightenment. What was the place of the natural world in Adam Smith’s famous defense of free trade? Fredrik Albritton Jonsson recovers the forgotten networks of improvers and natural historians that sought to transform the soil, plants, and climate of Scotland in the eighteenth century. The Highlands offered a vast outdoor laboratory for rival liberal and conservative views of nature and society. But when the improvement schemes foundered toward the end of the century, northern Scotland instead became a crucible for anxieties about overpopulation, resource exhaustion, and the physical limits to economic growth. In this way, the rise and fall of the Enlightenment in the Highlands sheds new light on the origins of environmentalism./div

Biogeography and Ecology of New Guinea

Author : J.L. Gressit
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400986327
Total Pages : 962 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Biogeography and Ecology of New Guinea written by J.L. Gressit and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 962 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: J. L. Gressitt New Guinea is a fantastic island, unique and fascinating. It is an area of incredible variety of geomorphology, biota, peoples, languages, history, tradi tions and cultures. Diversity is its prime characteristic, whatever the subject of interest. To a biogeographer it is tantalizing, as well as confusing or frustrating when trying to determine the history of its biota. To an ecologist, and to all biologists, it is a happy hunting ground of endless surprises and unanswered questions. To a conservationist it is like a dream come true, a "flash-back" of a few centuries, as well as a challenge for the future. New Guinea is so special that it is hard to compare it with other islands or tropical areas. It is something apart, with its very complicated history (chapters I: 2-4, II: 1-4, III: I, VI: I, 2). It is partly old but to a great extent very young, yet extremely rich and complex. It has biota of different sources - to such a degree that it is still disputed in this volume as to what Realm it belongs to: the Paleotropical or Notogaean (Australian); or what Region: Oriental, "Oceanic," Papuan or Australian. The terms Papuasian, Indo-Australian and Australasian also have been applied to the area.

Appalachian Highlands

Author : Gene Wilhelm
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781878721037
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Appalachian Highlands written by Gene Wilhelm and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Hydrological Problems and Environmental Management in Highlands and Headwaters

Author : Martin Haigh
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351439723
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (514 download)

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Book Synopsis Hydrological Problems and Environmental Management in Highlands and Headwaters by : Martin Haigh

Download or read book Hydrological Problems and Environmental Management in Highlands and Headwaters written by Martin Haigh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-19 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This set of papers presents a description of the synthesis of hydrological problems and various environmental implications and management strategies for different highland and headwater regions of the world. Regions covered include the Himalayas, Russian mountains, Amazonia, and upland Wales.

Ecology of High Altitude Waters

Author : Dean Jacobsen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019873686X
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Ecology of High Altitude Waters written by Dean Jacobsen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the abundance of high altitude aquatic ecosystems in certain regions, their biology and ecology has never been summarized in detail. Although poorly considered in classical textbooks of ecology and limnology, these threatened and exploited habitats have much to offer existing (aquatic) ecological theories and applications.

Highland Sanctuary

Author : Christopher Allan Conte
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0821415530
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Highland Sanctuary written by Christopher Allan Conte and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highland Sanctuary unravels the complex interactions among agriculture, herding, forestry, the colonial state, and the landscape itself. Conte's study illuminates the debate over conservation, arguing that contingency and chance, the stuff of human history, have shaped forests in ways that rival the power of nature.

Tropical Pioneers

Author : James L. A. Webb (Jr.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Tropical Pioneers written by James L. A. Webb (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tropical Pioneers documents the conversion of a tropical rainforest biome and the collision between what previously had been more discrete ecological zones within South Asia. The author demonstrates that profound ecological transformations occurred in the highlands of Sri Lanka during the nineteenth century and suggests that the integration of tropical ecological zones is an important theme for historians to investigate elsewhere."--BOOK JACKET.

Peasants, Subsistence Ecology, and Development in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea

Author : Lawrence S. Grossman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400855276
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Peasants, Subsistence Ecology, and Development in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea written by Lawrence S. Grossman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lawrence S. Grossman explores the far-reaching implications of the conflicts between subsistence and commodity production in developing countries. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Inequality in New Guinea Highlands Societies

Author : Andrew Strathern
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521107846
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (78 download)

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Book Synopsis Inequality in New Guinea Highlands Societies by : Andrew Strathern

Download or read book Inequality in New Guinea Highlands Societies written by Andrew Strathern and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-16 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strathern's illuminating study of the inequalities amongst the Highland societies of Papua New Guinea is now reissued with a new preface. The five papers in this volume seek to set these inequalities into a context of long-term and recent social changes that aim to develop schemes of analysis which will permit discussion of the societies over extended periods of time.

Highlands Ecosystem Research Symposia

Author : New Jersey. Department of Environmental Protection. Division of Science, Research, and Technology
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (693 download)

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Download or read book Highlands Ecosystem Research Symposia written by New Jersey. Department of Environmental Protection. Division of Science, Research, and Technology and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: